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Quietly · Guano Apes

EXERCISE 3 OF 19
Groove B
53 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Quietly on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 52-54, and 7 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x-|
Quietly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-84 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Quietly?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Quietly hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Quietly?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED